This Home Hidden In The Forest Appears Like A Stack Of Illuminated Boxes
William / Kaven Architecture has sent us photos of a home they completed in Portland, Oregon, that’s part of a collection of private residences perched on several steeply sloped sites within Forest Park, a 5,000-acre woodland.
A simple material palette of dark steel, concrete, glass, and custom bronze-black cladding grounds the house within the surrounding treescape.
Of the project, W/K partner Daniel Kaven says, “The ongoing aesthetic vision for the development is to create a collection of homes unified in materiality and design ethos, but distinct in their floor plans and overall execution. The homes are meant to read as iterations on a theme, connected by a unifying thread.”
From the road, the home seems small, however, due to its design, it’s actually spread out over multiple levels, with the top layer home to the garage and entryway.
The glass front door opens to a sitting room filled with an abundance of natural light and views of a green roof.
You start dying when you stop dreaming.